Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'The lady in the dark who fell on the tracks and other stories from Cercanías'

A woman fell on the tracks at the Clot commuter train station in Barcelona yesterday, during a lighting failure that left the platforms in darkness. It seems that the woman was turning on her mobile phone's flashlight, was walking while looking at her phone and tripped. Typical. Other passengers who heard the crash of the fall and the cries for help pulled her off the tracks.

And, on the other hand, this morning the trains have circulated with problems through the Centelles station due to some kind of breakdown, because the nature of the problem has not been reported. And a breakdown between Cerdanyola Universitat and Cerdanyola del Vallès affects the circulation of the R4, the R7 and the R8. The trains slow down as they approach the affected section. In other words, there is no news on the Cercanías, where everything is going very well, Madam Baroness. Everything we could say has been said by Miquel Ferreres in this morning's joke:

-Mom, why does the train break down every day?

-When you know what country we live in, maybe you'll understand. Now don't make me talk, I'd say some rude words that I don't want you to hear.

A similar joke could be made with that The Supreme Court refuses to grant amnesty to Puigdemont. Yesterday, the Prosecutor's Office and the State Attorney's Office told the Supreme Court (Judge Llarena) that should apply amnesty to him, in Comín and in Puig. You already know that the Supreme Court says that the amnesty cannot be applied to them because Puigdemont got rich with the 1st of October. Yes, he got rich because the money was not provided by him, but by the Generalitat, and therefore he made a profit. In response to which the Prosecutor's Office says that the fact that there was embezzlement "cannot be seriously affirmed." Which is an elegant way of saying that it is nonsense. It can be seen from three hours away that the Supreme Court 1) is acting as a savior, and 2) is favoring the agenda of the PP and Vox to overthrow Sánchez. And that both things are inappropriate for a high court in a democracy. Consider that the desire to get rich was not mentioned at any time during the trial of the Process, so the Supreme Court is pulling arguments out of its sleeve as it goes along.

And I'm done.

The judge of Catarroja has charged the councilor of Justice and Interior of Mazón for crimes of homicide and injuries due to negligence. Mazón is not summoned to testify The judge is not responsible for the damage caused by the rain, because of his status as a privileged person, but he is singled out for one basic criterion: the DANA was not an unforeseen phenomenon. Everyone knew that it was going to rain heavily and the Generalitat was competent to warn the population of the risks. "It was up to the autonomous authorities to warn the population," says the judge. But the Generalitat warned when hundreds of people had already died. The minister did not make decisions and the only thing that could have forced her to make them was untraceable. For the moment, Mazón is saved from testifying in court. But the clarification of responsibilities will take a long time.

Good morning.